Right whales generally swim south during the winter to the warmer waters off the southern United States, but Koala and Curlew have gone much further to the Gulf of Mexico, where sightings are rare.

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States). Employees at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one of ...

President Trump officially declared Sunday “Gulf of America Day” in celebration of his recent executive order to rename the body of water — signing the proclamation while flying over it en ...

While flying over the Gulf of Mexico on his way to the Super Bowl in New Orleans, Trump held a news conference announcing the new honored day and other executive order plans for the week.

US President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation recognizing February 9 as "the first-ever Gulf of America Day," following a recent executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, in a ...

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States, anyway). Workers at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one ...

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The announcement came on Sunday, Feb. 9. On his Inauguration Day Jan. 20, Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Google Maps posted on X it ...

Sen. Jack Reed in a social media post Saturday needled President Donald Trump and his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico. "Since Trump is busy unilaterally renaming bodies of water down south ...

"I took this action in part because, as stated in that Order, "[t]he area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has long been an integral asset to our once burgeoning Nation and has remained an ...